Internationally known artist, Nick Sider, is a self-taught acrylic painter based out of New York City. Since the age of 5, Sider knew he wanted to be a painter. He grew up with a love and passion for art but decided to pursue other interests after leaving high school.
At the age of 25, Sider decided to quit his job and began to pursue his childhood dream of becoming an artist. He relocated to New York City and had his first NYC solo show. With the help of several viral videos on social media, Sider has gained international recognition for his hyperrealistic paintings and has been fortunate to sell his artwork to collectors worldwide.
While experimenting with a multitude of subject matter, Sider has always maintained a hyperrealistic style, attempting to create paintings that extend beyond what a photograph could ever capture. The pains that Sider takes to bring out the details of his fierce subjects make his paintings comparable to photographs or go beyond the details that photographs provide. Some of them are so realistic that they appear to leap out of their canvases. His incredibly detailed wild animal creations capture both their stunning beauty and wild ferociousness. “My favorite moment while painting is when a subject on my canvas begins to come alive,” he says.
His main goal for his paintings is to use detail and color to create the illusion of life spawning from the canvas. More recently, Nick Sider has been working on a series of large-scale lion and tiger paintings as an ode to his childhood and his obsession with drawing big cats.
It’s not always animals that Sider paints, but humans too. He focuses on common people, capturing their innocent expressions and emotions on canvas in realistic colors. However, it’s his renderings of animals, such as tigers, lions, bears, rhinos, and others, that has made him famous. Nick Sider is currently showing with Galerie Bartoux in New York City and will have his first Museum Show in 2022 at Zillman Art Museum.
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